Well after a week on vacation I went back to work today. Vacation was good; I did nothing for a whole week! The Sweetie and I had time together until the children got home from school, and then it was back to the evening grind of transporting the children to their activities.
On Thanksgiving I smoked the turkey on the BBQ. Started it at 8:30 in the morning. It was frigging cold with the temperatures around freezing the whole time I smoked it. When you do this with a BBQ you need to stay outside with it the whole time in case of any flare-ups that might turn the bird into a charcoal lump of indigestible crap.
Friday I went to my local sporting goods store to get a new pair or work pants. At the store Chuck Buck of BUCK KNIVES was their with a booth setup. He was there signing knives and just doing general PR work. Buck knives have just recently moved to Post Falls, ID from California. I carry a Buck knife with me all of the time as everyone who knows me could tell you, so I thought I would get him to autograph mine. He used an engraver to autograph it.
I use this knife everyday and have loved it very much; it was a proud moment for me to meet Mr. Buck again. I had met him before when I was around 9-10 years old. He and his father had a booth setup at a NRA convention that was in Seattle around 1980. I watched his father take my dads knife and re-work a blade that had broke on it. It was at this time I became a Buck owner for life.
